Help with fetchmail bug #268228

[Graham Wilson <bob@decoy.wox.org>]

The fetchmail source package used to generate a SSL version of fetchmail
and a non-SSL version, along with a -common package used by both. The
-common package took care of creating and removing the user needed by
either package.

The fetchmail source package now only generates one package (with SSL
support), and it handles creating and removing the user it needs.

Upon upgrading from multi-package version of fetchmail to the
latest version, fetchmail-common is removed from the system, and removes
the fetchmail user as well. This leaves the newest fetchmail package
without a user to run as.

What is the best way to fix this? This only way I can think of (as was
suggested in #268228) is to check in the init script whether the user
exists, and, if not, to create it.

Is this a good solution to the problem? If not, what should I do?

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